Sentence examples for electoral contest from inspiring English sources

It was the first electoral contest McCain had ever lost.

It also has implications for the electoral contest itself.

He was returned for a further seven years without an electoral contest.

It also sits in surely the most bizarre context of any contemporary electoral contest.

Talk story about New York City politicians and the foregone electoral contest between Mayor Giuliani and Ruth Messinger.

To any Greek politician, especially one in the throes of an electoral contest, that sounds like a trap.

For similar reasons, Uruguay's ruling left-of-centre coalition looks set to retain power in an electoral contest this autumn.

IN Derry, a rainy port on the United Kingdom's northwestern edge,the electoral contest is hard-fought and emotionally resonant.

The prospect of an incumbent president caught in a genuine electoral contest — a nearly unprecedented event in Africa — excited Lekuton.

Ecuador has had a wave of elections since Correa came to power and this will be his sixth electoral contest.

Modi entered his first-ever electoral contest in a February 2002 by-election that won him a seat in the Gujarat state assembly.